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National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year
Finally in paperback This handsome edition features French flaps.
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild.
At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be--with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox.
Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own. . . .
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Pennypacker, Sara
- ISBN: 9780062377029
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.70 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 2019
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Unlikely friends and strong bonds
Jef L. - 7 years 2 months agoPax, Sara Pennypacker's latest young adult novel, explores the indelible bond between a twelve-year-old boy named Peter and his pet fox, Pax while covering some emotionally fraught terrain. The novel begins with Peter and his father driving into the woods with Pax in tow. War is coming, and we learn the boy is supposed to stay with his grandfather three hundred miles away while his father is off serving. Though Pax has almost no knowledge of the wild (he was rescued at a few weeks old), Peter's father forces his son to release his beloved pet into the wilderness. From here begins an adventure for boy and fox alike, as Pennypacker alternates chapters between the fox's perceptions and Peter's. There is a timeless quality to the narrative. The war and setting remain unspecified but local and looming on the periphery of the story. The harsh realities of combat also manifest themselves in Vola, a hermit-like woman who comes to Peter's aid after the boy has an accident in the woods when he runs away to look for Pax. It is the self-reliant and confrontational Vola, a victim of war herself, who teaches Peter the most about himself. Likewise, Peter brings Vola back into the world she has been avoiding. Pennypacker researched foxes extensively while writing this book, and her insights into this highly intelligent animal's behaviors add a richness and depth to the story. Her narrative resonates a quiet power about the deep emotional ties that can form between species and strangers, as well as the unaccounted costs of war.
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